First of all, I just want to say that I really like "There Will Be Brawl". Nice work.

Now, getting to the point. At first I just didn't get the whole "not-plumbers"-thing. After giving it some thought I realized that it was probably a reference to the fact that the brothers are never plumbers in the games. Looking around in the forums, I got this confirmed.I just wanted to point out that this isn't true. In "Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga" for the Game Boy Advance, there is a part where Mario and Luigi actually do some plumbing. Now I realize that you have to have played the game to know this and I realize that I can't expect the creators of TWWB to have played every Mario-game ever created, but it's a really great game. Go play it.

The Plumber idea comes from many sources. I like to use the Mario Arcade (Never Played Before. I've Played on the Brawl Stage) To clearly represent the Plumber Flag. I mean, Look at it. Clearly, a sewer with a Pipes system.

Yeah... The original "Mario Brothers" (note, not "Super Mario Brothers") had you fighting those turtles, fireballs, and crabs in the pipes. So, plumber, sort of, though I don't know of any real plumber that actually goes INTO the pipes, let alone finds fireballs in them.

AdmiralMemo wrote:And really, how many plumbers wear overalls? Seriously? If plumbers wore overalls, we wouldn't get any "plumber's crack" jokes.

When I was about 9 years old, my parents called the plumbers and 2 of them came. And they both had overalls on as well as red and green shirts. All they needed was hats. I had a couple of friends over and we just thought it was the most awesome thing ever.

Joseppi wrote:When I was about 9 years old, my parents called the plumbers and 2 of them came. And they both had overalls on as well as red and green shirts. All they needed was hats. I had a couple of friends over and we just thought it was the most awesome thing ever.

You guys need to remember that not every line of these show is somehow supposed to be connected with a video game or movie references, lol. The whole "aint no plumber" shtick is partly a nod to the fact that the majority of people who know about Mario and Luigi associate them as plumbers in the Mario Bros "storyline", therefore making it humorous that they are always so adament about NOT being plumbers.

Same thing about Sonic in a wheelchair, mentioned in another thread. He isn't in a wheelchair because he is a broken character in Brawl, it's cause he used to run fast and it's funny that in this awful, fucked up world of Brawl, his legs are useless.

I'd like to point out that this is a series where you eat mushrooms to grow bigger, gain fire (and, later, ice) powers through the use of flowers, turtles (sometimes with wings) attack you, flasks of unknown liquid substances create doors to a "negative zone", princesses float using the powers of their dresses, flutes summon tornadoes, and small dinosaur-esque creatures allow humans to ride them as if mounts.

I think the issue of whether or not the Mario Bros. are plumbers is, forgive me, laughably meager compared to all the other questions we should be asking. XD

I really liked the fact that Mario has a poster of the SMB movie on his door. They were plumbers in that, which kind of gives the whole "plumber in fiction/the movies" angle which gives some explanation as to why Mario gets so pissed off whenever people bring it up.